India is declaring millions of its citizens to be foreigners. Rather than find and prosecute illegal immigrants, Assam has instead tasked its 33m people, many of them poor and illiterate, with proving to bureaucrats that they deserve citizenship. Those who fail risk being locked up.

I just want to say that for all non indians reading this,this article is massively biased. The real situation is that million of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh enter India every year.they don't integrate into the local culture well and instead drive down already low wages for Indian workers. Bangladesh (west Pakistan) got its independence from India in 1947 when they wanted their own country.Now after ruining their own country they flood into ours. How is that acceptable for any nation.The BJP is a nationalist government which got around 350 of 542 seats in parliament from the Indian electorate for implementing this platform.you may call us fascists ,Nazis and rascists or whatever is in fashion these days but India will protect her borders.we have had a bloody history full of oppression and foreign invasion and our government will do what the majority of the population elected them to do.

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